Before people opening up their headlights, consider how much the replacement cost of the headlights. Does anyone know how much they cost?ATL-FFE said:Dredging this up from the past --
I wish they were brighter. Anyone ever try and crack open the lense and replace the LED's (or at least have a picture of what they look like opened up)?
Me too, and I wish they would also stop subtly flickering.ATL-FFE said:I wish they were brighter.
There's no ignition on an EV !! :lol:WattsUp said:The flicker only happens while the ignition is on.ATL-FFE said:I wish they were brighter.
Yep! Our FFE has done this for the entire time we've had it.WattsUp said:I wish they would also stop subtly flickering.
You can see the flickering glow from inside the car whenever you just have the LED eyebrows on by themselves when parked up against a white wall (like in your garage).
The flicker only happens while the ignition is on. Turn the ignition off, and the flickering instantly stops. Turn it back on, and it starts again.
Does anyone else notice this?
empowah said:Any downsides to just keeping on the low beams on all the time? Pretend to be Canadian or something.
BOLT said:Not sure if this will work, but here are the photos I took for this mod, copy and paste if you need.
https://plus.google.com/_/notificat...UFWDzssWf1kQ_wt3Yhci98&dt=1416319615939&uob=8
triangles said:FYI if you really want the LEDs on all the time. If I remember correctly when you change the config in Focccus to "enable" DRL You can leave the parking lights on all the time and when you turn the car off they go off.
triangles said:Focccus: It's a super buggy Russian program. Be careful it may cause your car to brainwash you into voting for Trump.. LOL. I usually have to run it several times before it completes the read without errors. It basically just edits the car computers configuration file telling the computer what hardware your car has. Once you get it to read the config you should save an unaltered copy of the original config so you can always go back to the stock config in case you inadvertently change something you didn't intend to. Once you finally get the program to read the config from the car you can simply change variables via drop downs. This is how to "enable" DRL:
I use quotes for enable because the cars that actually have DRL have slightly different hardware. I would guess maybe an extra relay or two, but who knows? So enabling it in the config doesn't really enable it on the car. However you can sort of fake DRL by enabling it and leaving your parking lights on. When you turn the car off the parking lights turn off too when DRL is enabled so you don't accidentally leave them on and kill the 12V. I didn't like this so I put it back to stock config. Note: you can also enable global window open/close:
Another neat but mostly useless feature that allows you to open or close all windows with your fob. I say it's mostly useless because while you can lock/unlock your car from a football field away, global open/close doesn't work much farther than about 20ft from your car.
Anyway back to Focccus. It will cause a multitude of errors and DTCs that may initially freak you out that you've possibly bricked your car. Have no fear these DTCs are easily cleared with Forscan.
121gigawatts said:triangles said:Focccus: It's a super buggy Russian program. Be careful it may cause your car to brainwash you into voting for Trump.. LOL. I usually have to run it several times before it completes the read without errors. It basically just edits the car computers configuration file telling the computer what hardware your car has. Once you get it to read the config you should save an unaltered copy of the original config so you can always go back to the stock config in case you inadvertently change something you didn't intend to. Once you finally get the program to read the config from the car you can simply change variables via drop downs. This is how to "enable" DRL:
I use quotes for enable because the cars that actually have DRL have slightly different hardware. I would guess maybe an extra relay or two, but who knows? So enabling it in the config doesn't really enable it on the car. However you can sort of fake DRL by enabling it and leaving your parking lights on. When you turn the car off the parking lights turn off too when DRL is enabled so you don't accidentally leave them on and kill the 12V. I didn't like this so I put it back to stock config. Note: you can also enable global window open/close:
Another neat but mostly useless feature that allows you to open or close all windows with your fob. I say it's mostly useless because while you can lock/unlock your car from a football field away, global open/close doesn't work much farther than about 20ft from your car.
Anyway back to Focccus. It will cause a multitude of errors and DTCs that may initially freak you out that you've possibly bricked your car. Have no fear these DTCs are easily cleared with Forscan.
This all sounds cool, but I'm a mac guy. Not going to buy a laptop just to do this. One day.
scottt said:Macs can run Windows.....
121gigawatts said:scottt said:Macs can run Windows.....
If you own a copy of Windows. I'm not willing to buy an entire OS just to do this. Its probably the same price to buy an entire used laptop with Windows pre-installed.
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